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Registered charity · Leicester

National Space Centre

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £9.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Norway, South Africa, Scotland and more
Website
www.spacecentre.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
National Space Centre
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.9m£10m
  • 2024£8.9m£9.8m
  • 2023£8.7m£9.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.2m£7.5m
  • 2021£6.3m£5.7m
Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN RELATION TO SPACE AND PLANETARY SCIENCE, ASTROMOMY AND TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE TO LIFE ON EARTH

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.2y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (2)

13
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 13General Charitable Purposes 2The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 17Professional services 6Retail and trade 6

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£8.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.2 in 2020

193 from 189 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1078832
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 DECEMBER 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 8 NOVEMBER 1999, 19 FEBRUARY 2002, 26 NOVEMBER 2002 & 26 MAY 2006 AND BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 2 SEPTEMBER 2010
Companies House
Company number 03485236 · Active
Contact on the register
0116 2582115 · jenniferb@spacecentre.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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